The Popular Front In France

Author : Julian Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1990-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521312523

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The Popular Front in France by Julian Jackson Pdf

This is the first full-length study in English of the Popular Front, the left-wing coalition which emerged in France during the 1930s in response to the threat of fascism and which went on to win the elections of 1936, giving France her first socialist premier, Léon Blum. After a brief narrative history of the Popular Front the book is organised thematically around the main historiographical debates to which the Popular Front has given rise. Among the issues considered are the origins of the strikes of 1936, the reasons for the failure of the Popular Front economic policy, the relationship between culture and politics in France in the 1930s and the causes of France's policy of non-intervention in the Spanish Civil War. The book views the Popular Front at three levels - as a mass movement, political coalition and government - and argues that it must not be seen just as a narrowly political phenomenon but as a political, social and cultural explosion which attempted to break down the barriers between all areas of human activity in the highly compartmentalised society of France in the 1930s. Even if the Popular Front ultimately failed in this aim it has acquired legendary status in France, and the epilogue to the book briefly examines the 'myth' of the Popular Front from 1936 to the present day.

Author : Karl G. Harr
Publisher : Lanham : University Press of America
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015013404630

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The Genesis and Effect of the Popular Front in France by Karl G. Harr Pdf

Harr's study casts new light on the evolution and significance of the Soviet tactic of the popular front; thereby deepening our historical understanding and our political sophistication.

Author : Simon Dell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230286955

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The Image of the Popular Front by Simon Dell Pdf

During the 1930s Europe was convulsed by political violence. The National Socialists rose to power in Germany and Fascists campaigned in Britain, Spain and France. Yet Europe was also transformed in this decade through new applications of film, photography and radio. In fact, these political and technological developments were closely intertwined.

Author : Helen Graham,Paul Preston
Publisher : Springer
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1988-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349106189

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The Popular Front in Europe by Helen Graham,Paul Preston Pdf

Out of the social and economic turmoil of Europe in the 1930s, the Popular Front emerged as the spearhead of the left's bid to stop fascism in its tracks. Fifty years on from the birth of the Popular Front this edited collection assesses the impact of the idea of bourgeois-proletarian alliance on the European left as a whole. It also examines the fate of the Popular Front governments, both in France, which remained nominally 'at peace', and in Spain, where the bitter strife over social and economic reform erupted into open civil war.

Author : Dudley Andrew,Steven Ungar
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0674027167

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Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture by Dudley Andrew,Steven Ungar Pdf

The authors highlight the new symbolic forces put in play by technologies of the illustrated press and the sound film - technologies that converged with efforts among writers, artists, and other intellectuals to respond to the crises of the decade.

Author : Julian Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1990-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0521386578

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The Popular Front in France by Julian Jackson Pdf

This is the first full-length study in English of the Popular Front, the left-wing coalition which emerged in France during the 1930s in response to the threat of fascism and which went on to win the elections of 1936, giving France her first socialist premier, LTon Blum. After a brief narrative history of the Popular Front the book is organised thematically around the main historiographical debates to which the Popular Front has given rise. Among the issues considered are the origins of the strikes of 1936, the reasons for the failure of the Popular Front economic policy, the relationship between culture and politics in France in the 1930s and the causes of France's policy of non-intervention in the Spanish Civil War. The book views the Popular Front at three levels - as a mass movement, political coalition and government - and argues that it must not be seen just as a narrowly political phenomenon but as a political, social and cultural explosion which attempted to break down the barriers between all areas of human activity in the highly compartmentalised society of France in the 1930s. Even if the Popular Front ultimately failed in this aim it has acquired legendary status in France, and the epilogue to the book briefly examines the 'myth' of the Popular Front from 1936 to the present day.

Author : Martin S. Alexander,Helen Graham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0521524229

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The French and Spanish Popular Fronts by Martin S. Alexander,Helen Graham Pdf

The first multi-dimensional approach to the Front phenomenon of the 1930s.

Author : Maurice Larkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0198731523

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France Since the Popular Front by Maurice Larkin Pdf

Professor Larkin analyses the factors that have shaped modern France, provides lively accounts of the political figures and key events of the period and compares the country's progress with that of its European neighbours.

Author : Daniel R. Brower
Publisher : Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015000515760

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The New Jacobins; the French Communist Party and the Popular Front by Daniel R. Brower Pdf

Author : Peter Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134725311

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The National Front in France by Peter Davies Pdf

This provocative and non-polemic study explores the value system of the National Front movement in France, and explains the way in which the movement's ideology has been formulated and articulated in the 1980s and 1990s. Also discussing the crucial role of Le Pen, this book provides a fascinating enquiry into the most controversial political party in contemporary France.

Author : Nicole Jordan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0521522420

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The Popular Front and Central Europe by Nicole Jordan Pdf

A study of French policies in Central Europe from Versailles until the fall of France.

Author : Jacques Danos,Marcel Gibelin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015011374546

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June '36 by Jacques Danos,Marcel Gibelin Pdf

Class Struggle and the Popular Front in France.

Author : Brian Jenkins,Chris Millington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317507253

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France and Fascism by Brian Jenkins,Chris Millington Pdf

France and Fascism: February 1934 and the Dynamics of Political Crisis is the first English-language book to examine the most significant political event in interwar France: the Paris riots of February 1934. On 6 February 1934, thousands of fascist rioters almost succeeded in bringing down the French democratic regime. The violence prompted the polarisation of French politics as hundreds of thousands of French citizens joined extreme right-wing paramilitary leagues or the left-wing Popular Front coalition. This ‘French civil war’, the first shots of which were fired in February 1934, would come to an end only at the Liberation of France ten years later. The book challenges the assumption that the riots did not pose a serious threat to French democracy by providing a more balanced historical contextualisation of the events. Each chapter follows a distinctive analytical framework, incorporating the latest research in the field on French interwar politics as well as important new investigations into political violence and the dynamics of political crisis. With a direct focus on the actual processes of the unfolding political crisis and the dynamics of the riots themselves, France and Fascism offers a comprehensive analysis which will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as scholars, in the areas of French history and politics, and fascism and the far right.

Author : George Ross
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520304895

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Workers and Communists in France by George Ross Pdf

Workers and Communists in France analyzes the relationship between the Parti Communiste Français (PCF) and Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT), France’s largest and most influential trade union organization. All trade union movements in advanced capitalist societies have had to develop mechanisms to achieve their goals within the labor market and the political realm. The nature of such mechanisms varies dramatically from society to society. George Ross examines a trade union movement whose philosophy and actions are derived from the political and organizational perspectives of the Communist Third International tradition. Workers and Communists in France submits the modern history of the relationship between the PCF and the CGT to the complex test of a cost-benefit analysis. How well has the linkage between party and trade union worked for French Communism, for French workers, for the French left, and for French society? Since World War II, the ties between the PDF and the CGT have enabled them to promote and perpetuate sharp notions of class and class conflict among French workers and French society in general. The CGT has been the central agency through which French Communism has shaped debate about the nature of French society, a debate with profound effects on the structure of French politics and intellectual life. On the other hand, the basic contradiction between the Communist Party’s desire to use the CGT for partisan purposes and the CGT’s need to generate mass support has never been resolved. This failure may have followed from the very structure of the relationship between the PCF and the CGT, as well as from consistently inappropriate strategic calculations by the PCF. Ross concludes that the Communist Third International's concept of the link between party and trade union is becoming obsolete. The future of Communism in France may well depend, therefore, on a reappraisal of the party’s relationship with organized labor. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.

Author : Ginette Vincendeau,Keith Reader
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034240213

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La Vie Est À Nous! by Ginette Vincendeau,Keith Reader Pdf